Cartoons Thursday!
Plus Colbert, a new Stones song and revisiting the landmark Byrds session 60 years on.
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"Fascism says for us to split ourselves up into the thousand cliques and klans and beat our own chains of slavery onto our ankles by wasting our strength fighting our friend and neighbor—allowing the fascists to nip us off one by one, little by little, group by group." –- Woody Guthrie
Stephen last night:
Brand new song by the Rolling Stones, with Steve Riley, for the tribute album to Clifton Chenier, “King of the Zydeco,” on Valcour Records. “Zydeco Sont Pas Sales.
This week 60 years ago the folk-rock trend hit #1 on Billboard charts and was fully launched with the Byrds’ version of Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Here from original session an attempt at an instrumental track, with Roger McGuinn backed by the session heroes later known as The Wrecking Crew.
From Tunes to Toons
Ann Telnaes on Supreme Court actions on deportations.
….and Barry Blitt at the White House:
